Re: gtk1.3 vs gtk1.2 size.

[mallum <breakfast 10 am>]

on Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 12:16:20PM -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> > Why is the newer gtk so much bigger ? 
> 
> It has a whole hell of a lot more features, and implements more things
> internally instead of relying on Xlib.
>
cool :). 
 
> > Is there anyway to make it smaller ?
> 
> For embedded stuff the best approach is to remove widgets you aren't
> using from the Makefile.am, and from gtk.h. Also, you can use
> configure options to avoid building many of the image loader backends
> in gdk-pixbuf.
> 

Ok I'll look into this. thanks.

> We want to have an easy way to strip out widgets using configure
> options, but no one has had time to do the work.
> 

Im learning autoconf stuff at the moment. This could be a good
exercise for me. 

Many thanks for the info;

  -- mallum